Variable word sorting in the RCA 501 system
F. H. Applebaum · Preprints of papers presented at the 14th national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery on - ACM '59 · 1959
The design of a variable word computing system such as the RCA 501 has stimulated investigations into techniques for efficiently sorting business data. This paper is a report on a generalized sorting routine arising from this investigation.